Comments by cmetzenberg

Hey Eric, could you write a piece on how our dependence on foreign oil hurts our economy and more importantly leads to military conflicts like the Iraq Wars, once you have written that piece write a follow up piece justifying how our current dependence on foreign oil is ok and get me a figure on how many Iraqi children are dead vs how much ground water wasn't contaminated by not using our own natural gas, yeah that'd be great. Not in our backyard, just someone less fortunate right?

Could someone at the independent write a piece on how or dependence on foreign oil hurts our economy and more importantly leads to military conflicts like the Iraq Wars (no blood for oil, i know you guys can get behind this), once they have written that piece write a follow up piece justifying how our current dependence on foreign oil is ok and get me a figure on how many Iraqi children are dead vs how much ground water wasn't contaminated by not using our own natural gas, yeah that'd be great. Not in our backyard, just someone less fortunate right?

EastBeach, Agreed. This upstream meter should only be able to measure total voltage and amperage to the property, right? Unless electricity has somehow changed since my last electronics class i'm calling BS.

Thanks JoeSixPack. People need to stop being fearful of things just because they don't understand them, Fracing is one of these. I work in the offshore oil and gas industry and I have been researching these fracing incidents for some time. It is my conclusion that fracing is safe for ground water as long as the process is done correctly as many land rig operations could compromise ground water when they are done negligently. If the fracing water is managed properly the risk is about the same as many other drilling ops. Companies such as Ecosphere technologies are already building frac water processing units for the field. This can be done safely and it will be.

Solar and wind are great ways to subsidize our energy consumption. Understand that we will NEVER meet our needs with solar and wind alone, our consumption currently is to large for that, forget about future forecast-ed use.

Dr. Dan my assertion is far from outrageous and I do actually have quite a fair bit of data in the form of incident case analysis. (FYI, I work in the drilling industry.) The vast majority of the highly publicized incidents have route causes in human error (as do the vast majority of most industrial incidents.) that could happen AT CONVENTIONAL DRILLING SITES TOO. IE, multiple cases of poor pit managment (pig pools of drilling fluid overflowing and contaminating ground water), casing and cement failure. These are not fracking specific failures.

Riceman, are you a geologist? 7 miles, that is how thick some of these "impermeable layers" are. 100% impermeable, doubtful...now neither you nor I are oil field geologists so maybe we should let the experts tell us how impermeable these layers are and impermeable to what?